Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking when I said I wouldn't have much confidence in the advisors that would be around her... ;-)

I do think, though, that they have enough sense to not want to get in a war with Russia are China, for example. This doesn't mean they have enough sense not to initiate a war with Iran.

Or should I say, "Eye-Ran"? (to give it the "conservative" mispronunciation)

It seems that to rate with a conservative American working class audience and gain their trust you must say "Eye-Rak", "Eye-Ran", and "nookyular"...as well as dropping your "g"'s off gerunds.

It's like proving that you have calluses and can split wood and hunt moose. Pathetic, really. I blame it on 50 or more years of Hollywood movies about rugged cowboys and frontier heroes. Daft mythology, but it works in America.